TONIGHT in LA: “Fantastic Planet” with live score

The first Tuesday of every month I host Animation Tuesdays at the Cinefamily. This month an encore performance of René Laloux’s trippy 1973 animated feature Fantastic Planet with a live soundtrack performed by L.A.’s Jesus Makes The Shotgun Sound. This show was performed last month at the Los Angeles Animation Festival to a full house – you get a rough idea of the program in the video below. The show starts at 8pm at The Silent Movie Theatre at 611 N. Fairfax Ave. in Hollywood. If you are interested, I’d advise reserving tickets HERE.

Trippy? WOW! Thanks Jerry, now I’m off to find out more about this film.

http://jessicaplummer.blogspot.com Jessica Plummer

Wow, even the dialogue? I’d so go see this if I was anywhere near the West coast. Fantastic Planet is quite an animation relic and this sort of presentation really seems to do it justice.

Jonathan

I went to the musicians Myspace page, I really like their music. I haven’t seen Fantastic Planet in a very long time. I would definitely go to this show if I were there.

Ashley Simon

I adore Fantastic Planet, I really wish I could come over west. This would be so amazing to see.

RODAN

You’ve disturbed my meditation…

http://www.frankpanucci.com Frank Panucci

FANTASTIC PLANET is amazing, but one of its weak points is the original score. A newly-composed soundtrack – or even several of them – would be more interesting.

childisfatheroftheman

I dunno, I like the trippy, synthesizer music. Reinforces the “otherworldliness” of the film. I always felt the weakest point was the monotone voices. Everyone sounds like they’re trying to emulate Hal from 2001 Space Odyssey.

And there are DVDs of the regular segment Ernest le vampire in France, out of print now but can still be bought for not always outrageous prices. Other than that I can’t help as there’s nothing else I’ve read of being featured in it.

tonma

HAHA! YES!, I saw ‘Planet’ when I was like 10, and developed a huge phobia for this animation style and crazy sound fx, which I still keep to this day, but kinda like how it feels now.
Then, a year ago I saw ‘Escargots’ first time, with tool’s ‘The pot’ as sound track,(really morbid thing) an I had nightmares out of it.
Nice to see the two of em’ come from the same minds.
Gotta say, thanks for the delirium, Mr. Topor and Mr. Laloux.

Notalc

Fantastic Planet was made in another world, on the planet 1973. It would be interesting to see what Sylvain Chomet’s animators could do with this story on the planet 2011.

Corey K.

I’ve always wondered… does the English dub accurately reflect the original French script? I haven’t seen it in a long time, but I seem to recall that it ended rather abruptly, with a narrator hurriedly wrapping up the story, as if they’d run out of money to finish the film.

http://palais.wikidot.com Jordan Scott

No to the English version being accurate, yes to it ending rather hurriedly in either case and yes to it being intended to be longer but needing to be wrapped up. I think it was handled rather well, though; made it coincidently similar to how recent MIYAZAKI Hayao features end, which they’re often complained of but I find has a charm of its own.